October Exemplars: Harvest Time

A monthly column looking at books of poems and poetry, written by Grace Cavalieri

Q&A with Benjamin Wood

Benjamin Wood is the author of The Bellwether Revivals: A Novel

Q&A with Wenguang Huang, The Little Red Guard

In a country where cremation is mandatory, the narrator’s grandmother insists on a traditional burial and persuades his father to build a coffin, in this memoir of an ordinary Chinese family during Mao’s Cultural Revolution.